SmoothCam filter estimates 5 hours to analyze a 9 second clip???

So I have FCS 3 and SnoLeopard and I tried to use the SmoothCam filter for the first time. There were no other filters applied, no motion at all, and no speed adjustments. It began to analyze and estimated 5 hours, no 6, no 7 hours to analyze this 9 second long clip. Standard DVCam footage, nothing unusual about it.
I got this system used and so far it has performed perfectly but I'm wondering if there's something in the configuration that might be creating a bottle neck.
I'd like to run my system specs by some experts to see if you know any reason why it should take that long.
It's a Mac Pro with 2 x Dual Core Intel Xeon 3Ghz processors. I'm assuming 2 dual cores should perform the same as a quad core generally.
Graphic Card is a ATI Radeon X1900 PCIe x16 with 512megs of ram.
System Memory is 2 Gigs, thats 4 x 512 meg DDR2 FB-DIMM 667MHz ( I realize this might be a little low and I've already ordered an additional 4 Gigs. )
FCPro version is Final Cut Studio 3.0
Do you have any suggestion what could be choking this thing? I don't know if this particular Radeon card (X1900) is a low end card or not. If it is, can someone recommend a better card for this machine?
Any suggestions you can make would be greatly appreciated.
Rob Fowler

I never would have guessed what was the problem and I'm no noob. I started out on FCPro version 2 on OS9. Seems like very poor planing on the part of the design engineer to have it analyzed the entire captured file. They need to process it with handles, one or two seconds on either side of the in and out points.
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We've wondered why setting in and out points does not translate immediately to IN and OUT to Smoothcam. There are workarounds. Sorry about the presumptuous assumption. the issues with optical flow grabbing the entire media have been known for years.
<div class="jive-quote">But again, thanks. The info was priceless!< </div>
So the question is actually answered? You got something out of me besides attitude? Cool.
bogiesan

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